Desktop Enviorment issues

[Xanayoshi]

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sudo apt-get install geany

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alias awesome='geany'

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awesome

[chris47]

Thank you sir, that helped..

[Xanayoshi]

I think Ryanvade's response was more in terms of your system's capabilities. Do you like any of the environments? You can't realistically use all of them right off the bat. Each one has it's own settings, window manager, file manager.... That's not even touching on environments that are using the same dependencies, etc...

3.4 Lite is the latest release, if 3.5 worked, so should it. This would be the Mate Environment, sort of like Gnome Classic Plus, Gnome 2 Minus.

[pam]

chris47...Awesome is for an advanced user with multimonitor setup. Mouse usage is not required in Awesome.
It runs and functions with a keyboard because its more productive and faster and hence used mostly by programmers.

In your case, like you said just use kwin instead of compiz for kde. OR you can use gnome-fallback(..logout and login with gnome-classic desktop).

For compiz to work stable you might need to install drivers for 550ti from www.nvidia.com.

[ryanvade]

Awesome is a bit more advanced. And yes, I recommended it based on your specs. If you use the default configs, you won't get anything. Awesome requires customization. But, when it is done, it is EXACTLY what you want. Perhaps I shouldn't have recommended it, but it would work great with your specs.

[chris47]

I appreciate all your input from everyone here. I do like KDE and GNOME classic, they seem to work for me right now. I was just curious about the others originally. Pam how do you install the latest drivers from Nvidia.. I think the last time I tried, I ran into all kinds of issue..thanks.

[pam]

Many ways, but....

EASY WAY OUT--open your terminal and type the following:

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

REBOOT

[ryanvade]

The newest driver is 319. So with the xswats update ppa (from pam's post)

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sudo apt-get install nvidia-319

Awesome is very hard to set up. Here is the best looking desktop I have seen:
http://data.glacicle.org/screens/latest-desktop.png

[chris47]

Ok followed direction and get E: Unable to locate package Nvidia-319 I do how ever have it downloaded from Nvidia and saved in my home/downloads folder..

[ryanvade]

nvidia-319 not Nvidia-319. apt-get is very picky.